Monday, October 31, 2022

Sam and Jason something

 hahahahahahahahahahaha.

Oh my gosh.

So this was a spot I was holding for a little Sam and Jason...not exactly a coda and not exactly for Halloween. But a little something with Jason and Sam. 

I got the idea from my friend Steve Leonard. It's called THE RETURN and it starts thusly:



“I can’t believe you thought I was dead.”

Ethan was laughing, but there was that slightly defensive note in his voice that Sam remembered. His light, restless gaze avoided Sam’s, and Sam remembered that too.

“Hell, yes, I thought you were dead.” Sam did not want to recall the horror of the thing in that shallow grave. The thing that had been wearing the tattered rags of Ethan’s red plaid shirt and rotted jeans with the smear of viridian on what remained of the frayed hem.

If not, Ethan? Who? Who had been buried in that grave wearing Ethan’s clothes?

“And that you’d tell my dad!”

Sam’s attention jerked back to Ethan. “Why wouldn’t you tell him if you were still alive?”

If I was still alive?” Ethan gaped.

Yeah, he was right. That was a strange thing to say. This was Ethan. So why was he resisting the idea? Why didn’t he want to accept what was right in front of him? This was more than a relief, so much more than good news. This bordered on miraculous.

So why that unsteady but persistent flicker of unease?

Would he have known him if he’d passed him in the street?

Yes.

He’d have known Ethan anywhere.

Sure, he had changed. He was older. Mature. A man. There were little flecks of gray in his unruly eyebrows, same as his father. Silver threads in his soft, dark hair. He still wore it the same: soft waves springing up from his forehead. He was thin. There were crow’s feet around his blue eyes; his fine boned face had a weathered look, and it wasn’t all from painting outdoors in hard sunlight.

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Needless to say, I forgot all about holding a space on my blog for it! 

It's not quite done. I'll share it here next Halloween. ;-) 

Sorry for the confusion. 




Friday, October 21, 2022

New(ish) Release: HIDE AND SEEK

 


For museum curator Andrew Allison, the sleepy little Maine village of Safehaven has always lived up to its name—until now. Fleeing an abusive relationship, Andy has returned to Safehaven for a few weeks while he figures out the future and helps his elderly Uncle Cuthbert run his antiques shop. But when Andy arrives, he learns Uncle Cuthbert is in the hospital, critically injured, the victim of a late-night break-in.

Worse, one of the first messages on the shop’s answering machine is from Marcus, Andy’s ex, demanding to know Andy’s whereabouts.

Nor does the bad news stop there. It seems whoever broke into Time in a Bottle is still looking for that mysterious whatever. Something they didn’t find the first time. Something they now believe Andy has.

Something worth killing for?

The good news is former bad boy Quinn Rafferty, Andy’s high school crush, is back in town and interested in renewing their acquaintanceship.

Quinn is not a man to run from things that go bump in the night, be they mysterious midnight prowlers or a relationship-shy, fish-out-of-water museum curator.

But Quinn has a few secrets of his own…

 

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